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Friday, March 13, 2009

What I Did to Stimulate the Economy Today: March 13, 2009

Today was payday which meant I was able to really stimulate the economy. But before I list how I exercised my patriotic duty, just want to lament about the day. It started off fabulously by attending media day for the Florida International Air Show which is next weekend. Later in the day reality and associated fear finally kicked in with potentially losing my job.

The county began the first in a series of budget workshops and it appears as though most of the elected officials want to cut out middle management which is where is my position is. I had written a much longer post about this but opted to edit my thoughts and not publicly share them but will say I took away this:

There's an "us" and "them" issue going on. Citizens seem to think it's them against government and elected officials seem to think it's them sticking up for the citizens against government staff and civil servants. But does anyone remember government staff and civil servants are citizens, too? We're all in the same boat.

There seems to be a lot of anger and hostility which perhaps stems from misinformation and not knowing the facts.

All I ask: If I'm going to be let go, let me know before I need to renew my lease (really soon) so my cat and I can make plans to run away to Oregon to live in a yurt and expand my writing, blogging, and marketing business. Can I get WiFi in a yurt?

And this is how I stimulated the economy today:

Starbucks - Green Tea Frappuccino

Lunch @ Subway + tip

New Clothing from a Trip to the Mall (I'll be live tweeting during the Sarasota Film Festival later this month with V.I.P. access so need to look fab, visiting the gym tomorrow.)

Paid: Cell Phone, Credit Cards (only one still has a balance), and Water Bills

2 comments:

Yes, I'm a sucker for those stupid tip jars EVERYONE leaves out. Honestly, before the recession was "public" I never gave to them but now, I feel bad for the service workers and leave my change. I know, I shouldn't feel bad, I earn every penny I make. Just trying to spread the wealth around...